Last class before exams

Today was not as serious a class as it should have been, as it was the last day before exams. We managed to get one task done, going over our political test. It was a fun class, despite being called a dog (but that just made it funny), After that Mr. Schick explained to us a chance to redo a test if we scored poorly on it, but thankfully that does not apply to me because my score was not low enough. This class was the last class of 2014, and we will miss John when he goes back to Korea to visit his family. Good day, and a good class- Thank you Mr. Schick

Test Review

Today we went over the test we took yesterday, and although I didn't do well on it, I still got a lot out of class. Mr. Schick gave us our scantrons, and tests that will be useful when studying for the exams. I need to work on studying the small details that compose our class

December 10 2014 -The test

Today in class we took our test on culture. It was a little harder than i expected, but I think I did pretty well. It included lots of details about each religion, which I wasn't quit prepared for, but I think that I answered the majority of them correct. What I really do regret is not studying the movie more. I wish I had known the questions asked to guy playing the game show.I feel kinda bad about being an American who goes to a private school not being able to answer the same questions a "slumdog" can. I have learned a lot about how to study that I will use in the near future with the upcoming exams.

day before test 12.9.14

Today was the last day before our test on culture. This unit we watched Slumdog Millionaire, studied langauge, Ethnic Heritage, and religion. On the test, there will be 5 religions. we went over three of them on Friday, and today we went over Judaism and Buddhism. Mr. Schick told us a fascinating story of their founder, and how he went days without eating decently to better understand why some people must suffer and others have very rich lives. I found that buddhism was a very practical religion. With Judaism, I was shocked that it is only ranked ninth with its' number of followers, but it is evident in the US that more people are Christina the Jewish. i am feeling confident about the test tomarrow, and am sure everyone else is as well.

cultural characteristics- religion 12.5.14

Friday, in class, we studied 5 major religions around the world. They are Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Each of thee religions has a founder, except for Hinduism. Hinduism seems to be more like a way of thinking more than a religion where one must worship this being that cannot be proved, or proved that it does not exist.  I liked that class, becausee it gave me more ideas on what other people believe besides what we are taught in our Catholic School. We also found out that we will have a test on Wednesday on everything from the movie "Slumdog Millionaire" to what we are currently learning. it will be a stretch to get it all studied for this weekend, but I think that I may manage to do it.

Today in Class- Cultural characteristics 12.2.14

Today in class we learned about the three aspects of culture. They are language, religion, and Ethenic Heritage. We went "in depth" with language and ethnic heritage, but did not have enough time for religion. We learned about how different countries can have links, just with the words they speak. We also learned about how Canada is bilingual, and how America has so many languages being spoken inside of it. I am glad that America speaks English, because English is considered the language of the world, ( I am very happy with not having to learn another language). Ethnic Heritage was an interesting aspect. We learned about how Yugoslavia was a country of many ethnic heritages, then split up because the citizens could not get along. However, The U.S. and Switzerland manages to get along with the many ethnic heritages in its' country. i liked the lesson today,  adn am excited for tomorrow's lesson.

blog

I am unable to blog today due to my absense from class

movie

Today in Human Geo, we continued watching the movie from yesterday. The two brothers, now orphans, met another child their age. Later, a man comes and offers the children a coke, and are taught songs, as well as given plenty to eat. one day one of the brothers sees the man blinding another child's eyes out, blinding him. Afterwords, the children run away, leaving Latika after climbing on a train.This was a very sad part of the movie. The children carry on with thir lives, coming up with ways to make money. They then come into contact with the man that was blinding children, after seeing Latika again. From watching this section of the film, i easily recognized how different the culture in India is from ours. For example, adults are much more violent to kids than in the US. Also, in the United States, someone would have seen these orphans, and they would have been put straight into foster care. Americans would find it unacceptable for a child that young to be on their own. I am excited to see the rest of the movie, because I am curious to know what happens with the man accused of cheating in the game show.

11.20.14

              The main thing we did in Human Geogeraphy class was watching a movie. But first, Mr. Schick was telling us about our extra credit assignment.(It's due Saturday at Midnight)
             The movie was very grasping. I am sure I made so many facial expressions. It took place in the slums of India.It was about this boy who won a million dollars on a game show. The story should go on to be 'hunky dory", but it doesn't. The police question him because there is no way a person with little education could win a million dollars answering questions. These questions turn to torture; shockng, head in water bucket, and constant slapping. I am liking this movie, and am excited to see more of it. .

human geo extra credit

             The song ABC by the Jackson 5 could represent one of America's pull forces. A person may come to America to get a better education than they would receive in their home country. Just look at how many international come to John Carroll.
               The song Hard Knock Life  by Alicia Morton is a song that could symbolize the push forces of third world countries, where people work day in and day out, but make little money. These people live in sadness, and poverty, and in hunger.

today in human geo 11.18.14

Today in Human Geogeraphy, we kicked off our culture unit by looking at a map of what people call soft drinks. I just assumed everyone called it soda, but earlier (maybe the 50s) it was called it pop, but that was not the case. North, around Chicago, i is called pop. one the east and west coast, it is called soda. South, around Texas and Florida, people just call it coke. I thought that it was a pretty cool map. Then we took notes on exactly what culture is. Culture is what parents teach their children, such as what to call things, and how to do things, and what foods to eat etc.  I thought tha it was a pretty fun class, and I am excited to see what we do tomorrow.

Mexico's National Anthem

Mexican National anthem with English translation! It reminds me of the American national anthem because it talks bout war. It also has a very similar sound.

11.13.14 test

Today in class we took our unit test. There were a few things that I wished I had studied a little better.before taking it, such as the question with all of the percentages of votes with some leader. That, I could seem to remember anything. One thing that I did like about the test, was that if you knew one thing, it would still help you figure out the answer in a very indirect way. Of all the tests that we have taken this year I feel the most confident about this one. I liked the essay question, and that is what I suspected it to be, so I was thinking about it all day today. i was pleased with this unit, an am excited to see what we learn next unit.

11.12.14

Today in Human Geo, we made sure that everyone could have permission to view the power points so that we could study for tomorrow's test. We reviewed this unit to refresh our memories. We went over how America should be ashamed of the amount of presidents assassinated in office, while Canada has  had no leaders killed in office, just one attempted murder. we talked about what the prime minister's job is (i.e. David Cameron). We also talked about how England's Queen has no power, all power goes to prime minister.

11.11.14

Today in class, we dicussed the similar random things usually discussed at the beginning of class, i.e. John's oatmeal. Then we met Cody's shadow. we managed to fit 5, including Mr Schick's, presentations into class today, as I was trying to type very quickly.  Class officially began with Paj and Alex doing their presentation on Syria. Next Stephan and Trish did their presentation on Israel.
Third, Jessica and I went. After our presentation, Mr. Schick told us about the horrifying current event in Mexico. Then, Ellee gave her presentation on  Brazil by herself. Then finally, Mr. Schick showed us that he made a power point presentation with links to student presentations on countries as well as some additional notes that will be a handy study aid for tomorrow's test.

human geo 11.7.14

In human geogeraphy class, we had two shadows. Overall, I think that they both enjoyed the class, especially because we were given cookies. Karson and Cody presented their power point on Russia. That was very interesting, especially because Karson had some primary sources on Vladimir Putin. I never realized how powerful he was until they presented. I had always known that he was a pretty powerful guy, but how he treats that power is scary is quite scary. What was very scary to me was that people though of him as God.  Next, Ryan and Meghan did their presentation on China. Ryan was especially knoweledgeable about china because china is his home country. It was cool to hear him pronounce those long and complicated names of the leaders in china. I am excited to see who present on Monday, although I think it may be Jessica and I.

presentation 11.6.14

Today in class we went over presentations. Parker and John began with Germany.One thing that I found very interesting was the berlin wall. It was made of concrete that split east and west Germany so that they could not have communication with each other. The two were reunited October 3 1990 as a Federal Republic.  joachim is the president of germany, but he is not the most powerful person in the nation.  He has been president since 2012, and his first term ends in 2017. He is allowed to run for re election for one more five year term. Angela Merkel is the person more powerful than Joachim Gauck.  She has been the chancellor of Germany since 2012. The citizens can overthrow there leaders with impeachment.
       Next, Kendall and Adam presented Japan. I was surprised by how similar their government was to ours. The have the same 3 branches of government that America has. What I found interesting was that Japan is the oldest continuing Monarchy in the world. Japan is also like England, they have a symbolic had of state. Japan has an emperor, like England has a queen.  Japan also has a prime minister, Shizno Abe, and he is the primary leader of the country. The prime minister has no limit to how many terms he can serve, just as long he continues to be re elected. to change leadership, the people can make a Peaceful petition,.There are  some other interesting facts. In Japan the minimum voting age is 20 years old.

today in class 10.30.14

Today in Human Geogeraphy, Mr. Schick  went over our pop quizzes from last week with us. I will be sure to use it when I study for our upcoming test. Once we finished, we started working on our country power points. I was having problems with the internet, but I got it sorted out afterwords. Jessica and I are about at our Eigth slide, and we have been focusing mostly on Pena Nieto, the president.of Mexico. Today was a pretty easy day. Mr. Schick said a few things about getting sources with legitimate information , such as newspapers' websites and sites with a later date of publication. Jessica and I will need a little more time working on our projects, but we both hope to have a very good power point presentation.

cross country championships

Today, I was not in Human Geo class because I was at the IAAM champonships at Oregon ridge on  3 mile hilly course. championships  went pretty well considering we were not a strong team this year, but learned a lot that will improve myself as a runner.  The team did as expected, 6th place out of 8 teams, which was probably a disapointment for the sophomores, juniors, and seniors, because the team won championships last year. I was glad to end my freshman cross country season running on varsity, and being the number 2 girl on John Carroll's Cross country team, especially after coming off an appendicitis. Adria finished first for John Carroll ( and in the top ten overall at a time of 20:10), and I was second for John Carroll, barely, it was less than a one second difference (21:06 and 21:07).  Afterwords, we all met in a building at Oregon Ridge for awards. We were all sad to see Mcdonough get the trophy that was once ours, but that is what will make us a better team next year. On the way back to school, we stopped at Wegmans and had dinner. The ride home was so much fun, because Emma and I split a full sized container of ice cream, and that was the best decision we ever made ( oh yes, we ate the WHOLE thing, minus a few spoonfuls from fellow ice cream lovers).

10.28.14 class today

Today in Human Geogeraphy class, Mr. Schick  introduced us to a project we are working on in class. Some of the partners paired were very surprising, and I am interested to see how their projects will turn out. We spent the remainder of the class working on our power point presentations. Jessica and I are doing Mexico for our project. I had a little trouble getting pictures onto the power point slide because the pictures were so large. Jessica worked on putting the pros and cons to Mexico's leader, Enrique Pena Nieto. although we did not get too far with our time, we at least got everything set up (ie created the power point, shared it, chose back ground, and got the title put together) I am very excited to get our project started, and am excited to see how everyone's turns out.

class today 10.2414

Today in class, Mr. Schick surprised us with a pop quiz. The answers to the questions that were either written in my blog, or discussed a lot in class were very easy, but the others were very tricky. Congrats to Paj or getting a 100 on that quiz. There were many other people that had A's as well.  today was a very laid back class, because after the quiz, we just talked about our class' scores and stuff in that era. Today was the last day of the quarter and I wish I had a little bit more time. this first quarter went by so quickly, I can still remember my first day of school, which was everyone else's third. I just  hope the next three quarter.

class 10.23.14

Class began with Mr. Schick telling us about how he graduated from high school in only 3 and a half years. Next, the class was curious to know what the international students do on the weekends, and Jon relieved us of our curiosity. After that, we discussed how the guy who jumped th white house fence was from Bel Air. We resumed from where we left off yesterday

class today 10.22.14

               Today in class, we began by discussing some of the events that occurred to some of the world's most powerful leader that may have effected their success in becoming the leaders of these powerful nations. Mixed in with the conversation, we discussed whether parents should hit (span, or slap) their children for disciplinary reasons. we also discussed how sometimes people come to America and decide that this is what they want for their country, as Zach said. At one point in class today, we hit a spot when no one had anything to say in class, but class eventually started rolling again. We started talking about Pena Nieto's Scandalist actions, which ended up rolling into other politicians' faults.

today in human geo 10.12.14

Today in Human geography class, we went over our sixty-point assignments. Mr.Schick corrected the students who copied and pasted pictures inot their blogs. Mr. Schick wanted us to download photos to out desktop, and then insert the picture to our blogs. Mr. Schick did have a good reason, when pictures are copied and pasted into bogs, they can not be viewed by other viewers. During the second part of class, we researched some of the leaders of other countries.

President Pena Nieto
                 The president had 3 children with her first wife. Years later, she died due to epilepsy. The president hired a soap opera actress to help him with political campaigns. the two eventually fell in love, and got married.

Joachim Gauck
                  Both of Gauck's parents were Nazi Party members. When Gauck  was only 11 years old his father was arrested by soviet occupational forces.

Bashar al-Assad
                    al-Assad was born on September eleventh. His father was born to a very poor family. He speaks fluent English and basic conversational french.

Xi Jinping
               When Xi was only 10 years old,  his father was purged and forced to work in a factory. Also, his education was cut short because of the cultural revolution. His father was put in jail when he was only 15 years old due to the cultural revolution.

David Cameron
              David Cameron agreed to the Scotland Independence referendum last month.

Stephen Harper
                He is the first prime minister to come from the newly reconstitute conservative party.

Pranab Mukherjee
               His father was very active in the Indian Independance Movement

Francois Holande
           He was  longtime leader of the socialist party
Shizno Abe
          He is Japan's youngest post war prime minister.
Vladimir Putin
          His anscestory is a mystery, as there are no surviving records of his ansestors with the last name Putin beyond his grandfather.

Dilma Rouseff
          She is the 36th president of Brazil, and the first women to hold office.
Benjamin Netanyahu
             He is the first prime minister born in Israel after the establishment of the state.

12 countries

Mexico:                                                              

Federal republic                                                     

President Enrique Pena Nieto

Germany:

Federal Republic
Joachim Gauck

Syria:

republic under an authoritarian regime

President Bashar al-Assad



China:
Communist state
President Xi Jinping

United Kingdom:
Constitutional Monarchy and Commonwealth Realm
Prime Minister David Cameron

Canada:
A parliamentary Democracy, a federation, and a Constitutional Monarchy
Prime Minister Stephen Harper

India:
Federal Republic
President Pranab Mukherjee

France:
Republic

President Francois Hollande


Japan:
A parliamentary government with a constitutional monarchy
Prime Minister Shizno Abe

Russia:

Federation

President Vladimir Putin

Brazil:

Federal Republic

President Dilma Rouseff

Israel:

Parliamentary Democracy

President Benjamin Netanyahu

class today 10.17.14

Today in human geography we learned about political geography. We looked at what makes a country a country, a nation a nation, a state a state, and what a nation state is. A country is any identifiable land area. a nation is a population with a common culture, and a state is a population under a single government. A nation state is just what it sounds like, a single culture under a single government.   Then we went over what our weekend assignment will be, to research the politics om 12 countries that the united states are dealing with.  They are Mexico, Germany,Syria, Canada, UK, China, India, France, Japan, Russia, Israel, and Brazil. This is a sixty point assignment, and am ready to get started.

class today 10.16.14

Today in class we went over our test results. The class as a whole scored very well. I was surprised that I got the answer to question number 22 correct because I guessed. I did not know that if the TFR is 2.1 or above, the population goes up. Nor did I know that if the TFR is 2 or less, the population goes down. But, now I understand why as I am thinking about it. I made sure to take plenty of notes as Mr.Schick went through the test with us, as I know that tests are a major tool for studying. I did not do too well on the CIA world fact book section, but that's because I  am naturally a slow worker.  My strategy for that section was to go through the things I was positive I could get the answer to in less than in a minute, and then good everything else. I do wish I had played around with the site more,and I would have known that South Korea was listed as Korea, South.  I could not find it in the alphabetical list, while taking the test. The test was a learning experience, and am glad to have it for exams.

today in human geo 10.07.14

class began with the question " is America the greatest country in the world?" Mr. Schick mentioned that after we saw an eight minute video with an actor drumming off statistics about how we are not the best country in the world, we automatically began to think the same way about our country. So, after Mr. Schick announced that we do have a quiz this week, he had us prepare by going on the CIA world fact book. Our task was to research facts about how America is or is not the best country in the world. The most interesting point was that the US produces the second most amount of oil in the world, yet we import a lot as well. This was pretty scary because we may not have a sustainable amount of oil in the future. Mr. Schick proposed the idea of solar panels. He mentioned how much cheaper it is and how better it is for he environment. Some people in the class had a hard time accepting this idea, but I thought that the idea was genius.

class 10.3.14

Class began today with  a clip from the television  series " the news room". The part about how "America is not the greatest country, but it can be"  really stuck in my mind. Our lives seem great in the us, but we aren't the best country to live in. For example, we do not have the greatest  public education. When I gt home, I did some research on this topic. Finland and Japan have h best education. America is ranked around 15. After  the clip, we had a debate that evolved into America's independence. A small percentage of the class believed that Americans should remain independent, while a larger percentage of the class thought it would be easier to trade, make allies, and help other countries.

Today in class 10.01.14

Today was a more layed back, relaxed day. It was the last mod of the day so people were tired anyways. Our class mainly revolved around music.Mr. Schick asked the class how they would feel about doing a project on a country be choosing a song that represented their weaknesses strengths, problem, and goals. Everyone seemed to like the idea, no one objected. Mr. Schick later said that he was working on some group that was trying to show that music benefits education. Spotify gave enough passes for each student in Mr Schicks class to have a free spotify account for a year. We spent the remainder of the class period setting the account up and listening to music. I am very excited for this project we will do ,and I think that it will be very fun.

Today in Human Geo 9.30.14

Today in Human Geography, we viewed a video  about population pyramids. It was quite a fascinating class that left me thinking. I never thought about how industrialized countries have fewer childbirths than pre-industrialized countries because women have more opportunities to get good jobs. Also, the women who do have children are typically older because they wait until they get out of college to raise children. After we watched the video, we answered some questions as a class. From these questions,our minds began to generate ideas. We realized that 3 of the many things that affect the population pyramid of a specific country is industrialization, natural disasters, and education of women. A country such as the united states has a rectangular pyramid because the amount of childbirths decreases. I really enjoyed today's human geography class and am excited to see what is discussed tomorrow.

class today 9.26.13

Today in class, we met Jessica's shadow student, Rachael. We did alot of discussion with the CIA world fact book. Trish took us to the section with countries dealing with a lot of HIV/aids. The country that suffers from that problem the most is Swaziland. In fact, twenty-five out of the top 26 countries with aids are a African Nations.  Carson also shared some pretty interesting facts using the CIA world fact book. We discussed other topics such as infant mortality, and lack of clean drinking water. It scared me that so many African coutries do not have clean drinking water. The reason for this is because they do not have a sanitary way of disposing human waste. In one country only about half the people in cities have bathrooms that takes human waste away sanitarily. In the rural areas the number drops to a quarter of people.   What this means for the environment is that people dump their waste into a field and it leaches into the ground and infects their clean drinking water, thus having higher death rates. Hopefully more countries will become as developed as the USA, and I especially hope that the African countries get their bathrooms to be more sanitary.                

class 9.25.14

Today, Human Geography class was hilarious, as in most of students participated with humor. The people who were on retreat yesterday received their tests back. We discussed the written answers on the test because we went over the rest of the test yesterday. We discussed  Globalization, Socrates and the Hemlock he drank. On top of that he used one of the short answer questions as an example of what a good short answer should look like. We used the question about Socrates quote, "The unexamined life is not worth living". A good answer would explain that quote deeply, and in a "down to earth" term. A bad example would be using a cliche expression, such as "live life to the fullest". That expression has no definite meaning. It is unclear whether or not that expression means to take dumb risks, or to be the absolute best person that you are physically able to be. Hopefully with these pointers in mind, the next test will be much more successful for everyone.

World Factbook and power point 9-19-14

Although I was not in class today, I sill found Mr Schick's power point and the CIA word fact book very interesting. In the world fact book, I was glad to see the the United States of America has the largest and most technologically advanced economy in the world. I was however surprised to see that the amount of African American was very low, at only about 12 percent. I was also surprised to see that there are more Protestants in the United Sates of America than Caucasians. Looking at a poor country, Haiti, I was shocked to see that it as in fact a free market. I will do more research later on why the country is so poor, I assume the four-year recent earthquake,which caused 7.8 billion dollars played a huge role in their poor modern economy. I did not spot anything wrong in the power point, but did find it very interesting. I found the graph about life expectancies quite fascinating.

Test

Although I did not take the test today in class, I still feel confident about taking it tomorrow. I understand " A message to Garcia", Socrates, and Globalization.  Using the website, Quizlet, that Mr. Schick recommended was helpful and fun for studying. However, if the test is more complicated than what I expected, I may have a problem. I hope the test is easy, simple and basic.  I do not think that it will be anything too extravagant. I am excited to get the test over with so I can catch my breath from all of this schoolwork. I am exhausted, and am ready for the weekend already. It is only 9:13 and am having the worst time keeping my eyelids open while finishing up my homework. Once the test is over, I will be excited to see what we will learn in the second unit.

today in class 9/12/14

Today in class, we discussed Globalization. We learned how America is not acting as a great influence on Japan. Japan originally had high life  expectancies because they ate fresh fish, sushi, and tea. America is influencing Japan to eat french fries, burgers,and soda.  Japan is also transitioning from traditional meals, where everyone would sit down, talk about their day. It was something that Japan felt was very important. Now, Japan eats things that are cheap, fast, and easy to eat in the car. We also learned about the silk road. I found it interesting how different small businesses would use the same path to trade and sell items. This was a fascinating class and am excited to see what we will learn Tuesday.

techonolagy in our lives

While watching the video, I was shocked. I did not realize how computers played such a large role in our lives. The fact about how current students will have 10-14 jobs by the time they are 38., wassort of scary. Isn't it easier to stay in one job? However, only one in two people currently  have not  had the same job for 5 years. The part about how 1 in 8 couples that did get married met online. I didn't know that online dating websites worked that well. I was also surprised how big Facebook is. It is shocking to see how social media is taking away from "good-old fashioned" talking on the telephone. It makes me wish that I had invested in Facebook, however I am concerned for Facebook that it will become less popular as more convenient ways of socializing come about. I do have a Facebook and a laptop, but am one of the few people at John Carroll that does not have  a personal cell phone, so technology does not seem to change how I spend my life.  However, Technology does make school a lot easier. Now thinking back on middle school, I don't know how I could get anything done without having my own personal computer. Technology is helpful, but can occupy a person's time in a bad way.

Socrates notes

Socrates was very heroic in Ancient Greece. He was a philosopher, that strongly believed in Greece's  form of government. Socrates wrote a quote that he expected people to live by. The quote said "The unexamined life is not worth living." What Socrates mean't by this was that people should learn from their experiences, reflect on their lives as human beings, as well as living in the present and not worrying about death as much as humans tend to do.   Later in his life he was accused of corrupting youth in his teachings. At his trial, he defended himself by continuously saying that he was not guilty for what he did and should be rewarded with  free meals for the rest of his life. The jury decided that he was guilty by death by drinking hemlock. His friends were shocked that he gave such a poor defense,  and was proven guilty. The friends said that they ad spoken to the guards, so the guards would turn their backs,while Socrates friends helped him escape. Socrates said he would not escape because that is how Greece's government works, and would not try to weasel out of what must be done to maintain justice in Greece.    

what we did today 9/4/14

Today in Human Geogeraphy we learned some new things. The day started out with cheers. Not understanding why, I laughed. It was a funny way to start class. We went over the blogs we posted yesterday, our homework. We found definitions of words. We spent a very long time on the word agora. However, a lot of interesting little facts came out of the conversation  We went through all the words, until we ended at Socrates. Mr. Schick told us an interesting story about Socrates' ugliness after a student pointed out the fact that he was ugly. In the story, Socrates pointed out the fact that because of his bulging eyes,he could see better. And also, due to his flared nostrils, he could smell better. This reminded me that functionality is much more important than appearance. Human Geography, as usual, is full of fun and  interesting content.

Ancient Greek Vocabulary 9/3/14

• Agora- (dictionary.com)
• a political assembly
• the place where such an assembly met originally a marketplace or public square  
• Arete-(dictionary.com)
• the aggregate of qualities,as valor and virtue, making up good character.
• Polis- (dictionary.com), (wikipedia)
• an ancient greek city-state
• The ancient Greek city-state developed during the Archaic period as the ancestor of city, state, and citizenship.
• 508 BC
• year of the pre-julian roman calender
• in greece-democracy in the City of Athens was established
• The death of Socretes- biogeraphy.com
• taught things suggesting that politicians were at the highest authority, not god
• accused of being an aethiest
• given the death sentence. 
• Socratic  method- law.uchicago.edu
• continually asking questions until a contradiction is found to prove if someone is lying. 
• Idiot
• originally greek
• person lacking a professional skill

       

In Human Geography class, we talked about our blogs. Everything was made much clearer. Instead of making a new blog, we are to make a new post. also the blogs are to be composed of one-hundred fifty  words. I took a look at the posts I made in the past to see if I had done them corrctly, and I did. Then, Mr. Schick told us that we were each challenged to take the ALS ice bucket challenge. After that, we saw Mr. Schick take the challenge, although the sound did not work.

excellent freshman year 8/29/14

The first thing I would do to ensure a successful freshman year is staying organized. By keeping all papers filed away by subject, it is easy to find one single paper out of hundreds in just seconds. The second thing  I plan on doing is writing homework down in a planner or on a sheet of paper and pulling it out at dismissal so it is easy to know what you need to take home. I also plan on doing assignments before they are forgotten. I also plan on keeping a schedule of what evenings will be busier than others so I can do as much homework as I can the night before it is assigned. The final, fifth thing i would do to ensure a an excellent year as a freshman would be to make sure you know who is in each of your classes, so if the planner idea fails because you forgot to write something down, you can ask a friend in that class.

My First Day of School

            My first day of school was pretty interesting. It started off in  English class. We began to write essays based on our summer reading books. In advisory picked I up my cross country uniform. In Human Geography,  I began to figure out how everything worked with the help of other classmates. After that class I was more relaxed about my first day because I got to meet new people.  Intro to drawing was fun.  The group conversation we had at the beginning as very interesting. During the second half of that class, we drew sketches of our hand. While I ate my lunch, I enjoyed taking the  break with the people I've known a while. I was also glad to be given the chance to get started on my homework.